time to move to bitpunk.fm
It s been a while and I ve been pretty active — just not on this blog. For the last seven months or so, I ve been releasing a cassette magazine called bitpunk.fm. It includes, music, poetry, technical articles and sounds. It is also a podcast feed in case you don t have a cassette player. I ve also been Continue reading bitpunk.fm
This is a proposal for a new type of amateur radio “net.” A “net” in ham radio jargon, is basically a meeting on the radio, usually on a repeater when using VHF/UHF or direct simplex when using HF voice or CW. There is a generally accepted protocol for these meetings which I will briefly summarize Continue reading A proposal for a new amateur radio net
General fiction and non-fiction read in 2017 by me.
These are most of the books I read (and kept) from 2016. Skip Blockchain Revolution. It reads like a collection of headlines taken from blog posts. Top three on the shelf are (in no particular order): Disrupted, Dan Lyons Eccentric Orbits, John Bloom A Burglar s Guide to the City, Geoff Manaugh Top fiction this year was: Continue reading Books read in 2016
If you are debugging a board using the Atmel ICE debugger with OpenOCD, you may want a udev rule so you don t have to run commands as root. This was the incantation that worked for me. I added the file /etc/udev/rules.d/42-openocd.rules with the following contents: Then, reload your rules with: Unplug and plug back in Continue reading udev rule for OpenOCD
Since upgrading to Ubuntu 15.04, I ve been living with systemd. I ve been a Debian user mainly and was wary of the doom-and-gloom comments about systemd but actually, I ve been a bit impressed with it so far. One thing that is undeniably easier with systemd is writing what System V init sytems called init scripts. In Continue reading Emacs systemd service
discerptor, n. A person who pulls something apart; a person who divides or separates something. Pronunciation: Brit. /dɪˈsəːptə/ , U.S. /dᵻˈsərptər/ Etymology: Probably partly post-classical Latin discerptor person who separates something (1748 in the passage translated in quot. 1854; already in 14th cent. in sense ’adversary’), and partly directly classical Latin discerpt-, past Continue reading…
The Glass Cage, Nicholas Carr Armada, Ernest Cline The Internet is not the Answer, Andrew Keen Future Crimes, Marc Goodman Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Future, Ed Finn and Kathlyn Cramer Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistle-Blower, Spy, Gabriella Coleman The Age of Cryptocurrency, Paul Vigna Seveneves, Neal Stephenson Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel The Continue reading List of books that…
From, The Novel in Analog: Joshua Cohen’s Book of Numbers As Cohen’s work reminds us, printed books are mostly private pleasures, lonely ones even. Unlike so much media today, they don’t target, watch, or measure us; they don’t flatter us with personalized stories based on accumulated data profiles (not yet, at least). But even as Continue reading If you are reading this on a screen
Cookies on websites both suck and are incredibly useful. They are useful because it s convenient to not have to re-enter usernames and other stateful pieces of data. They suck because cookies are used to track you and they remember things that the website considers useful but you may not. By the way, if you don t Continue reading nomnomnom regularly eat your cookies from Chromium